While the DSK scandal was rocking the front pages of newspapers
and inspiring deep conversation about political entitlement, it
was hard to see through all the smoke to get a good picture of
what really happened at the Sofitel Hotel on May 14th.

And it makes three points that are making everyone think: He
really might have been framed.

Let's break it down:

DSK's IMF Blackberry is still missing:
Where was this in the news? Epstein
points out that even before the Sofitel encounter, DSK
had been warned that his IMF Blackberry (which he used for a
mix of personal and professional communication) had been
compromised. A friend told him that Sarkozy's party was somehow
in possession of an e-mail he sent to his wife, Ann Sinclair.
He was about to have the phone examined for bugs in
Paris. This is the Blackberry he lost after his encounter with
Sofitel maid Naffest Diallo. She entered his room
around 12:06 PM or 12:07 PM. She left around 12:13 PM. He then
called his daughter Camille on his personal phone, met her for
lunch, and shortly after he left McCormick and Schmicks where
he was dining with Camille, he realized his IMF phone was
gone.

Diallo kept going back to the same hotel suite all day
and we still don't know who was staying in it:
According to key card swipe records, Diallou visited room 2820
a few times on May 14, including while a guest could have still
been there. She also went there immediately after
leaving DSK's suite. She did not tell the prosecution about
this.

The hotel's security company has close ties to
Sarkozy: A French company called Accor group owns the
Sofitel hotel. And while Diallo was reporting DSK in NYC,
their head of security, René-Georges Querry, was
attending a soccer game with President Sarkozy. Back
in NYC, John Sheehan the director of safety and security at
Accor made a mysterious call to an unidentified 646 number
while en route to the Sofitel to look into the Diallo issue.
There's more: Xavier Graff, the duty officer at the Accor
Group in Paris, later sent an e-mail where he lauds "bringing
down DSK" (he later said it was a joke), and on May 14th, a
security guard and an unidentified man were seen giving each
other high fives and celebrating around 1:28 PM. This is the
same unidentified man who took Diallo to the security office
when she reported being assaulted at 12:52 PM.